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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Speediest speed limit reduction: At a July 1 meeting of angry Forest Lakes residents who wanted something done at the U.S. 29/Ashwood Boulevard where 16-year-old Sydney Aichs was killed when a tractor-trailer failed to stop, VDOT says it will be the end of the summer before a change could be made. But at the July 2 Board of Supervisors meeting, Allan Sumpter of VDOT says the speed limit through the intersection will be 45 mph by the end of the week, Sean Tubbs reports on Charlottesville Tomorrow– and it is now.
Worst broad daylight shooting: Kenneth Blair Townsend, 21, is gunned down around 3pm July 7 in his Oxford Hill apartment complex parking lot on Madison Avenue. Townsend is taken to the hospital for serious, but non-life-threatening wounds, say police, and a witness reports three males fleeing after the shooting.
Worst day for inmates in area jails: Convicted ex-wife-and-her-boyfriend killer James H. Long Jr. is found dead in his Central Virginia Regional Jail cell June 29 while awaiting transfer to state prison to serve two consecutive life sentences plus eight years. Virginia State Police are investigating. And cop-killer suspect Ronnie L. White is strangled in his Prince George, Maryland, cell the same day in what is being called vigilante justice for the June 27 hit-and-run death of Corporal Richard Findley.
Worst date: Travis Wayne Lamm is found not guilty of rape– but guilty of the malicious aggravated wounding of his girlfriend January 24 after she drove him home. Lamm contended that the sex was consensual, and the jury, which recommended 20 years for the malicious wounding, apparently believed him. NBC29 has the story.
Worst moped accident: James Michael Baber, 50, is fatally injured late July 4 in Waynesboro when his moped collides with a Ford minivan.
Worst military loss: Charlottesville native Sergeant Sean Kenneth Webster, 23, dies June 28 at the Camp Pendleton Marine base in California after serving two tours in Iraq, and officials say his death was not an accident, the Progress reports.
Oddest home invasion: Two men– one brandishing a gun– break into an occupied 1600-block Rio Hill Drive apartment around 7am July 8 but leave in a large red or maroon vehicle without taking anything, WCAV reports.
Biggest layoffs: The Daily Progress says farewell to 25 printing and packaging employees, shifting printing of the 28,697-circulation newspaper to Richmond rather than spend several million to repair and refurbish its 25-year-old West Rio Road presses.
Biggest deal: Frank Batten-founded Landmark Communications sells the Weather Channel to NBC Universal for a reported $3.5 billion.
Latest local government trend: Within a week, both Charlottesville City Council and the Albemarle Board of Supervisors approve studies to find out if city and county governments are efficient.
Most alarming idea from Senator John Warner's office: Virginia's senior senator suggests a return to a national speed limit to save fuel, à la the widely despised 55 mph limit enacted in 1974.
Most innovative commute: Lovingston resident Steven C. Manning, 64, kayaks down the Rockfish River to his 104-plant marijuana patch until he's busted July 1 near Woods Mill and charged with with one count of manufacturing pot, punishable by five to 10 years and up to a $10,000 fine, according to a release.
Least amused by one of Nelson's top agricultural products: State Police Agent R.K. Kincaid spends three weeks investigating Manning's pot patch, pulling in the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and the Nelson County Sheriff's Office to quash the scourge and confiscate the kayak.
Best mugshot: Manning. He serves up a smile.


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Three One G 101 LP
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Limited to 500 copies
San Diego's Secret Fun Club has been the longstanding musical outlet for drummer and engineer Sal Gallegos (Some Girls, Three One G) and bassist John Rieder. An ongoing collaboration that formerly included guitarist Nathan Joyner (Hot Nerds, Some Girls, All Leather), the band has been making odd, challenging, and relentlessly heavy music on its own terms since 2000.
A duo of bass and drums since 2007, Sal and John began writing, demoing, and performing brutal new arrangements for two solid years, finally recording what would become the Three One G LP Skull With Antlers during the first half of 2009. With drums that call to mind Bonham (if he had preferred meth to booze) playing sides of beef and bass tones that alternate between motorcycle rumble and insectoid modulation and filtering, the band has mastered doomy, frenetic noise with occasional forays into quiet minimalism and copy-and-paste sound sculpture. W.T. Nelson (Geronimo, Bastard Noise)has collaborated with his brood of Trogotronic outboard gear to contribute painful frequencies across the range of human hearing. The newest album enlists his assistance again, along with equally brutal noisemakers Justin Pearson (Dead Cross, The Locust, Retox, Planet B), Sam Lopez and Esteban Flores.
Secret Fun Club sees itself fundamentally as a live band: 700 tube watts pushing apocalyptic bass wave-forms through sixteen ten-inch speakers—paired with some of the loudest, most punishing drumming imaginable. The band's sets are indulgences in volume and repetition, abrupt turns and uncomfortable silences.
Track list:
Side A
- Mastodon Rickles
- Scott Baiowulf
- Black Metal To English Dictionar
Side B
- Pariah Carey
- Pinche Harmonix
- Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark Throne
- Ted Nugent Was Goth In High School
- Pat Minotaur

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Size Matters: Why The TSA Fears Thirteen-Inch Laptops, But Not Eleven-Inch Ones
from the makes-no-sense deptI used to travel with both a laptop and a netbook. More recently, I've usually traveled with a laptop and a tablet. I always took both the laptop and netbook out when I went through airport security, assuming that was required. Also, remembering reports that were written when the iPad first came out, I also take my tablet out and dutifully place it in a separate bin. The last time I went through the airport, a TSA agent told me (for the first time) that I don't actually need to take out the tablet, but she still thanked me for doing so. I may continue to do so, just to avoid any further hassle, but it turns out that the rules for what devices you need to take out, and what you don't, are ridiculously opaque. And, in fact, I probably never had to take out that netbook in the first place, though I wouldn't have put it past the TSA agents to force me to do so anyway if I hadn't.
Matt Richtel, at the NY Times, tries to get to the bottom of the weird rules for what devices come out and which don't and mostly comes up empty. He got curious after a similar experience, in which he was told his iPad could stay in his bag. The TSA insisted it had its reasons, but wouldn't tell him. Other security experts had some guesses, but no solid reasons. Then, there's the TSA's famous Blogger Bob. Oddly, Richtel and the NY Times apparently don't know how to do this amazingly cool HTML trick of "linking" (guys, it's 2012, get with the program), but Richtel quotes two TSA Blogger Bob posts, which I will link to here, finding them myself using another modern digital tool: the search engine. The first one says that smaller devices can stay in your bag:
Electronic items smaller than the standard sized laptop should not need to be removed from your bag or their cases. It's that simple.That explains the what, but not the why. It also, once again, makes me think that it's often a safer bet to just remove, rather than give the TSA any reason to delay you. The second post is slightly more bizarre, in that it seems to suggest that there's a screen-size cutoff:
It's important to remember, however, that our officers are trained to look for anomalies to help keep air travel safe, and if something needs a closer look, it will receive secondary screening. The key to avoiding bag searches is keeping the clutter down. The less clutter you have in your bag, the less likely it will be searched.
Only electronics the size of a standard laptop or larger (for example Playstation®, Xbox®, or Nintendo®), full-size DVD players, and video cameras that use video cassettes must be removed from their carrying cases and submitted separately for x-ray screening. Removing larger electronics helps us get a better look at them and also allows us to get a better look at the contents of your bag
So with those rules in mind, the 11" model of the MacBook Air is fine to leave in your bag, and the 13" model must be removed prior to X-ray screening. Unless of course you own one of the "Checkpoint friendly" laptop bags... Keep in mind that even though you've done everything right, our officers are trained to look for anomalies and the need may arise to take a closer look at your gadget.Got it? 11" screens? Leave 'em in your bag. 13"? Take 'em out. 12"? Well, are you feeling lucky?
I hope this clears things up.
I am curious, however, how many people actually have tried to go through TSA security with an 11" or smaller screen on a computer... and made it through without having to pull the device out of your bag. I can't imagine that most average TSA agents know this amazing 12" rule.
Either way, Richtel tries to parse the language to figure out why there's a screen size cutoff, and still comes up empty. Finally, he talks to an anonymous "security expert," who actually worked on "related issues with the Department of Homeland Security." That guy admitted what we all pretty much suspected all along:
He said that the laptop rule is about appearances, giving people a sense that something is being done to protect them. "Security theater," he called it.Richtel makes it sound like "security theater" is a new term, which it's not. But, either way, it's nice to get confirmation, yet again, that the whole thing is a joke. But, in the end, it doesn't matter, because rather than deal with security delaying you from catching your flight, it's still probably going to be easier to take everything out and put them all in individual bins.
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DOVER — Happy New Year! It's been two years in the making, but the finish line and curtain drop is in sight for the purveyors of Cultural Graffiti, a new website (www.cultural-graffiti.com) focused on music, and other bits of artistic expression which will act as a communal hub of what's new and happening in today's cultural landscape. Right now the URL points to the project's newly established Facebook presence (please feel free to "like," and share with your friends!), which will soon give way to the full blown CG website.
To help kick things off, Cultural Graffiti — made up of longtime music journalist Chris Hislop, 1130ft Studio owner Chris Chase, and musical (and comic book) maven Stu Dias (front-man of award winning band Gnarlemagne, among many other things) — has teamed up with Scott Mason, and the new Barley Pub (located at 83 Washington St., Dover NH 03820) for a Wednesday night "Cultural Graffiti Presents:" series which will feature live local, regional, and national acts, as well as a monthly vinyl night.
"Cultural Graffiti Presents:" kicks off on Wednesday, Jan. 9 with Jazzputin and the Jug Skunks' album release party. The show starts at 9 p.m., the cover will be $2. The rest of the month is as follows:
Jan. 16, Tan Vampires with Deadbeat Darlings ($5 cover)
Jan. 23, The Hornitz (Boston) with Mainella ($2 cover)
Jan. 30, VINYL NIGHT with Jungle Wilde ($2 cover, or free if you bring a record to spin)
Feb. 6th, Gnarlemagne with Township ($3 cover)
Feb. 13, Ghost Wolves (Austin, Texas) with Cornelious Crane
Feb 20, Brown Bird (Providence, RI) with Dan Blakeslee ($5 cover)
CG's mission is simple: Seek. Catalog. Convey. These are the principles of Cultural Graffiti — a creative communal hub that seeks to identify the seismographic impressions within, music, film, writing, and beyond. Analysis and aesthetic justification of the cultural significance of said art is imperative in our mission to educate the populace about beautiful things that are hiding in plain sight. If we make a conscious effort to tune in and talk through the noise, the lines that may have once been blurred become a little clearer.
2013 is going to be a huge year, says Hislop. Cultural Graffiti is going to be an epic addition to the Seacoast scene, and the national scene as well. With live in-studio sessions paired with insightful Q&A sessions with artists traveling through the area (presently including Anais Mitchell, David Wax Museum, Mike Dillon, Tan Vampires, and many more…), as well as full-scale written features, podcasts, visual art, and more, www.cultural-graffiti.com is going to be a destination for music and art fans far and wide.
For more information on the site, and series, visit www.cultural-graffiti.com or contact Chris Hislop (firstname.lastname@example.com).


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text: A peak flow meter is commonly used by a person with asthma to measure the amount of air that can be expelled from the lungs. If the airways become narrow or blocked due to asthma, peak flow values will drop because the person cannot blow air out of the lungs as well. A peak flow meter can be a useful aid in monitoring a person's asthma over time and can also be used to help determine how well a patient's medications are working.


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ALPHA 9 CHANGESDas Schneltzelpfäfgrunnerkampfnitchelköpfende.
Undead hunger and rotting.
Living sanity and insanity, cannibalism.
Medics can try to revive recently deceased people.
1 (Rules) Cannot fire at or make an enemy of an indirect enemy.
2 (Item) Scent killer is not equipable anymore and the NPCs never use them.
3 (Options) Supplies drop option effect is reversed.
4 (Options) Some options are irrelevant to VTG mode but still enabled and used in computing difficulty.
5 (Wtf) Can drag more than one corpse but not really, causing bugs.
6 (Inventory) Partial stacks do not stack correctly in some situations : more is added than what isdropped.
7 (Murder) Cops can murder without consequences. Consequences will never be the same.
- Most undeads slowly rot away and have to eat flesh, similar to how livings have to eat food.
- Bite/eat people/corpses to recover points.
- When Hungry an undead may loose a skill each turn.
- When Starved an undead may loose 1 HP per turn.
- Livings should try to keep their Sanity.
- Sanity slowly decays.
- There are 3 levels of Sanity :
- Sane : nothing happens.
- Disturbed : nightmares.
- Insane : nightmares plus insanity sometimes taking control of the living actions and doing random things.
- Livings seeing or doing disturbing actions take a sanity hit.
- butchering a corpse.
- eating a corpse (living cannibalism is worse).
- eating someone alive.
- zombification and corpse rising.
- death of follower/leader with whom the living had a bond (see below)
- Recover sanity by:
- forming and keeping a bond with followers/leaders (see below)
- using entertainment items (see blow).
- taking some meds (yellow pills).
- killing undeads.
- Livings can eat corpses when starving or insane.
- Eating corpse recovers a bit of food points but transmit infection and is disturbing for sanity.
- Nutrition value is low, Light Eater helps a bit.
- Can try to revive corpses.
- Need : medic skill, a medikit, the corpse must be fresh.
- Chances depends on the skill level and the state of the corpse.
- A revive attempt consumes the medikit even if failed.
- Big boost in trust if not enemies.
- Using recovers sanity.
- Have a chance to become "boring" after each use.
- A "boring" item has no value anymore to the character who found it boring (but may still have value for other people).
- Books : good entertainment value.
- Magazines : stackable but low value and discarded once read.
- Bond:
- when max trust is reached, a "bond" is formed between the leader and the follower.
- a bond helps both livings recovering sanity, it is reassuring to know there is someone you can count on in this insane world.
- however, when the "bonded one" dies, the living takes a sanity hit.
- Followers remember the trust they had in their previous leader(s). Eg: leave a follower behind and he will remember the trust he had in you if you lead him again.
- Trees are now breakable and give wood.
- Wood from broken objects is not limited to one full stack of planks. Eg: trees = 10 planks (4,4,2).
- Trap: small actors (rats) have 90% chance to avoid triggering a trap.
- Murder: killing an agressor of a leader/mate count as self-defence and is not a murder.
- Indirect enemies: extended to include relations with respective leaders.
- New Z-Skill : Z-Light Eater, similar to living Light-Eater.
- Modified skill zombification : Light Eater becomes Z-Light Eater; Z-Eater has to be learned as zombie.
- New Skill : Strong Psyche - stay sane longer and recover more san.
- Followers: When fleeing/retreating, try to avoid stepping into their leader line of fire.
- Improved speed advantage evaluation : intelligent NPCs are much better at controlling range when they have a ranged weapon or are fighting a slower enemy (less stupid deaths).
- Starved or Insane hungry livings will eat corpses.
- Some livings use entertainment items.
- Intelligent NPCs will avoid stepping into traps that could kill instantly them unless starving or courageous/wreckless (gangs).
- Civilians will temporarily loose interest in an item stack they can't reach (eg:blocked by deadly traps).
- Not afraid anymore of stepping on empty cans ^^
- Not interested in ranged weapons if already have one.
- Civilians will trade with each other, but they won't annoy the player and remember with who they traded recently as to not spam trade offers.
- Civilians with medic skill will revive others.
- Meds can recover San.
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Literary Techniques and Figures of Speech
Alliteration: The repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants, at the beginning of words. For example, Robert Frost's poem "Out, out—" contains the alliterative phrase "sweet-scented stuff."
Allusion: A reference within a literary work to a historical, literary, or biblical character, place, or event. For example, the title of William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury alludes to a line from Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of nearby words. For example, the line "The monster spoke in a low mellow tone" (from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Lotos-Eaters") contains assonance in its repetition of the "o" sound.
Caricature: A description or characterization that exaggerates or distorts a character's prominent features, usually for purposes of mockery. For example, a cartoon of a gaunt Abraham Lincoln with a giant top hat, a very scraggly beard, and sunken eyes could be considered a caricature.
Cliché: An expression, such as "turn over a new leaf," that has been used and reused so many times that it has lost its expressive power.
Epiphany: A sudden, powerful, and often spiritual or life changing realization that a character experiences in an otherwise ordinary moment. For example, the main character in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man has an epiphany during a walk by the sea.
Foreshadowing: An author's deliberate use of hints or suggestions to give a preview of events or themes that do not develop until later in the narrative. Images such as a storm brewing or a crow landing on a fence post often foreshadow ominous developments in a story.
Hyperbole: An excessive overstatement or conscious exaggeration of fact. "I've told you that a million times already" is a hyperbolic statement.
Idiom: A common expression that has acquired a meaning that differs from its literal meaning, such as "It's raining cats and dogs" or "That cost me an arm and a leg."
Imagery: Language that brings to mind sensory impressions. For example, in the Odyssey, Homer creates a powerful image with his description of "rosy-fingered dawn."
Irony: Broadly speaking, irony is a device that emphasizes the contrast between the way things are expected to be and the way they actually are. A historical example of irony might be the fact that people in medieval Europe believed bathing would harm them when in fact not bathing led to the unsanitary conditions that caused the bubonic plague.
Metaphor: The comparison of one thing to another that does not use the terms "like" or "as." A metaphor from Shakespeare's Macbeth: "Life is but a walking shadow."
Motif: A recurring structure, contrast, or other device that develops a literary work's major themes (see below). For example, shadows and darkness are a motif in Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, a novel that contains many gloomy scenes and settings.
Onomatopoeia: The use of words like pop, hiss, or boing, in which the spoken sound resembles the actual sound.
Oxymoron: The association of two terms that seem to contradict each other, such as "same difference" or "wise fool."
Paradox: A statement that seems contradictory on the surface but often expresses a deeper truth. One example is the line "All men destroy the things they love" from Oscar Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol."
Personification: The use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas. Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" describes the city as "Stormy, husky, brawling / City of the Big Shoulders."
Pun: A play on words that uses the similarity in sound between two words with distinctly different meanings. For example, the title of Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest is a pun on the word earnest, which means serious or sober, and the name "Ernest."
Rhetorical question: A question asked not to elicit an actual response but to make an impact or call attention to something. "Will the world ever see the end of war?" is an example of a rhetorical question.
Sarcasm: A form of verbal irony (see above) in which it is obvious from context and tone that the speaker means the opposite of what he or she says. Saying "That was graceful" when someone trips and falls is an example of sarcasm.
Simile: A comparison of two things through the use of the words like or as. The title of Robert Burns's poem "My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose" is a simile.
Symbol: An object, character, figure, place, or color used to represent an abstract idea or concept. For example, the two roads in Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" symbolize the choice between two paths in life.
Theme: A fundamental, universal idea explored in a literary work. The struggle to achieve the American Dream, for example, is a common theme in 20th-century American literature.
Thesis: The central argument that an author makes in a work. For example, the thesis of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is that Chicago meat packing plants subject poor immigrants to horrible and unjust working conditions, and that the government must do something to address the problem.
Tone: The general atmosphere created in a story, or the author's or narrator's attitude toward the story or the subject. For example, the tone of the Declaration of Independence is determined and confident.


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Game Night at CHEZWaWaTuesday, December 3, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
The American Club of Brussels and our friends at CHEZWaWa invite you to join us as we revive that greatest of traditional past times, 'The Game Night'! We're going back in time to the days before the internet and bringing the board games back. Chess, Monopoly, Scrabble...Snakes & Ladders! Hell, weather permitting, we could even try some Twister for the more flexible among us.
If you have any board games at home, please bring them along and join in the fun!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Event details:
Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Place: CHEZWaWa, Rue Américaine 91, 1050 Brussels (tel. 02.534.63.30).
Public Transportation: Bus 54 (Trinité), bus 60 (Washington), tram 81 (Trinité).
Price: depending on your own consumption.
Reservations are due by Friday, 29 NovemberCancellations: If you signed up but cannot attend, please let us know. Thank you.
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If you're guilty of spamming your friends with random messages and basically useless mail this year, then it might be time to make a new year's resolution to stop doing that in 2013. But before you do so, it's time to get your last hurrah–and Facebook is going to make things easy for you with their new Midnight Message Delivery feature.
Of course, the point isn't to spam them but to send them well wishes for the coming new year. It can get hard to tap or type messages one by one to all of the people you want to greet, so this app is basically the solution. Just pin the Facebook Stories app to your account, create lists of people who you want to message, and then compose your greetings. Facebook will take care of the rest and send them off to be received by January 1st, 2013.
You can check out the Midnight Message Delivery feature here.
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Wind energy, particularly offshore, is still considered to be something quite "alternative" in electricity generation. Conventional generation in all its guises, by definition, is seen as the norm, with mature technology and clearly defined industrial and regulatory frameworks already set in place. But while people are talking about the next wave of conventional generation, be it more nuclear or going down a gas or clean coal route, the fact is that little is actually being built. Although new nuclear capacity has been announced, it remains a long way off.
The conventional power industry has, of course, had many decades to improve on cost reductions. In renewables, it is currently all about finding new ways of producing power and then looking to build on a commercial scale with the consequent affordability.
Different focus
So today, you have the established, conventional power industry focusing on efficiency and cost-cutting, and renewables focusing on investment while derisking that investment. As a result, there is a common perception that one is different from the other. But actually, both are creating power plants that generate electricity, and in the end it's what matters.
It is clear that offshore developments are different from onshore wind farms, particularly in scale. Their massive size and generation capacity warrants the name of "power stations".
When you consider the gigawatts of power production offshore, particularly in the UK's Round 3 zones, it takes you very comparably into the range of the energy output that a conventional power station would be able to provide into the electricity system.
The largest Round 3 project, Dogger Bank, has an agreed target installed capacity of 9GW. Calculations from developer Forewind suggest that, with a capacity factor of 40%,this would produce around 31,500GWh a year, making it one of the largest energy projects in the world.
Compare that to the largest conventional power station in the UK, Drax in North Yorkshire, with a capacity of roughly 4GW. According to UK government figures, with a capacity factor of 50%, this would produce approximately 17,500GWh a year.
That amount of scale warrants an equal amount of engineering expertise to get behind it. There is an awful lot to be done in terms of how to do that properly, safely and cost effectively.
Focus the mind
So there is something to be said for those within the industry regarding offshore renewable energy developments as power stations. I want to see the same focus of engineering competence and commercial dedication seen in conventional generation applied to understanding how best to deliver renewable energy and make it more efficient.
If you create that mindset, it helps to focus thinking on how you would approach procurement and health and safety and, in particular, how you would collaborate with competitors on very common issues such as design and performance. In other words, the creation of common standards.
We need a more joined-up approach in the offshore wind industry, with supply chain, developers, financiers and politicians all working more closely together to identify where costs can be reduced. You need to have the common engineering and operational excellence to know where you can take out the costs, which is one of the most urgent requirements of the offshore sector.
Andrew Jamieson is the CEO of the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, part of a network of technology and innovation centres established and overseen by the Technology Strategy Board


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MUSTANG HOOFPRINTS: Gold Rush Raffle sold out again in 2014
Hello Mustang Fans!
The Gold Rush Raffle was a huge success Friday.
I would like to thank the Mustang Gold Rush Raffle Committee members for their time and effort in the development and planning for the event. I would also like to thank our coaches and staff members who were responsible for the overall execution of the activities and event schedule for the evening. We are very fortunate to have the support we do for SMSU athletics throughout the campus and in Marshall.
We were able to sell 600 Gold Rush Raffle tickets this year, selling out for the ninth straight year. The Mustang Booster Club and the SMSU Department of Athletics are very appreciative of the more than 300 Mustang supporters who came out to enjoy the Gold Rush Raffle environment and help us raise funds for the Mustang Booster Club.
Thank you to all who contributed to the success of the Mustang Gold Rush Raffle!
Myles Brand Award
The SMSU Department of Athletics will recognize nine student-athletes that have earned the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference's Myles Brand All-Academic with Distinction Award today. A total of 96 student-athletes from the NSIC's 16 institutions and two affiliated members will receive the award, which in its fifth year.
Mustang student-athletes earning the award this year include Vanesa Corona, Josh Hanson, Ethan Hildebrandt, Bree Holleman, Micah Larson, Rachel Patnoe, Rebekah Rolling, Nick Smith and Britt Wickett.
The honor, named for the late NCAA president Dr. Myles Brand, is bestowed to senior NSIC student-athletes who have a cumulative grade point average of 3.75 or higher, are exhausting their eligibility and are on track to graduate. Each student-athlete will be recognized by the NSIC with a certificate of achievement and a wrist watch. Congratulations to these nine student-athletes for their hard work and academic excellence.
It's a Slam Dunk, Don't Drive Drunk
The fun and activities continues this week on campus.
The SMSU Department of Athletics will be hosting the "It's a Slam Dunk, Don't Drive Drunk" campaign today and Saturday, when the Mustangs play their final regular season home basketball games of the 2013-14 season.
For the second straight year, Student-Athlete Advisory Committee members from across the NSIC produced videos with the underlying theme of the campaign. The videos honor Drake Philip Bigler, the five-month old son of SMSU head men's basketball coach Brad Bigler, who was tragically killed by a drunk driver on July 28, 2012.
Videos were submitted through the SAAC's Facebook page (www.facebook.com/NSICSAAC) and were judged on overall impact, creativity, memorable content, delivery and clear message. Concordia-St. Paul won this year's award for the top video. The video named most outstanding of all submissions will be recognized during halftime at the NSIC Basketball Tournament championship games.
To help further raise awareness during the last month, each SAAC group will have a booth at their arena to have people in attendance sign and a pledge card stating that they will not drive drunk. Each person who signs the pledge card will receive a blue keychain with an inscription of the theme: "It's a Slam Dunk, Don't Drive Drunk," the NSIC and NCAA logos and with Drake's name.
Last year, 14 of 16 NSIC schools submitted videos with the underlying theme of "It's a Slam Dunk, Don't Drive Drunk." The University of Mary's submission was named most outstanding, while Southwest Minnesota State University collected 1,337 pledges from fans, the most in the NSIC, to earn $1,000 that was donated in SMSU's name to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Bring your family out to the SMSU men's and women's basketball games this weekend and support the Bigler family, SMSU and the NSIC with the "It's a Slam Dunk, Don't Drive Drunk" campaign.
Pink Zone
Also this weekend, the SMSU Department of Athletics, along with Affiliated Community Medical Center (ACMC), will be hosting the annual "Pink Zone" campaign on Saturday at the R/A Facility. The event raises awareness and focuses on women's health.
Each February, during the "Pink Zone" event, the R/A Facility is decorated in pink to show support for breast cancer awareness. The day will be filled with a number of activities, including prize giveaways. Several SMSU students will also be donating hair to Locks of Love during halftime of the men's game. College Against Cancer will be selling pink T-shirts to raise money for Relay for Life and ACMC will be serving ice cream for all fans at the basketball games on Saturday.
For all your information about this weekend's activities and SMSU athletics, visit our website: www.smsumustangs.com.
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The SMSU wrestling team (11-5 overall, 5-2 NSIC) will conclude the 2013-14 regular season at 2 p.m. Saturday, when the Mustangs welcome the University of Mary (2-9, 1-6 NSIC) to P. E. Gym.
It will be Senior Day as SMSU pays tribute to six seniors who have all played a major role in the programs growth during the last five years.
Thank you to William Dean, Ethan Hildebrandt, Codie Lane, Micah Larson, Justin Reinsma and Andrew Rodas for your persistence, hard work and leadership with the SMSU wrestling program.
Men's Basketball
The SMSU men's basketball team (16-10, 13-7 NSIC South) will conclude its regular season this weekend with a pair of home games at the R/A Facility. The Mustangs welcome Concordia-St. Paul (8-16, 5-15 NSIC) to the R/A Facility at 8 p.m. today. On Saturday, No. 17 Minnesota State (23-4, 17-3 NSIC South) comes to town for a game scheduled at 7 p.m.
SMSU begins the weekend in third place in the NSIC South and in a three-way for fourth place in the overall standings. Concordia is tied for sixth in the NSIC South and tied for 12th overall, while MSU is tied for first place in both the NSIC South and overall standings.
Following this weekend, the Mustangs begin play in the NSIC/Sanford Health Men's Basketball Tournament at home at 7 p.m. Wednesday versus either Minnesota-Duluth, U-Mary or Minot State. SMSU will secure the No. 3 seed in the South Division and will host the No. 6 seed from the North with one victory this weekend.
In this week's NCAA Division II Central Region rankings, the Mustangs were ranked ninth among ten teams.
SMSU is one of five NSIC schools to appear in the regional rankings with No. 1 Winona State, No. 2 Minnesota State, No. 8 Bemidji State and No. 10 St. Cloud State. The Mid-American Athletic Association (MIAA) has four teams ranked this week with No. 3 Missouri Southern, No. 4 Northwest Missouri State, No. 5 Central Missouri and No. 6 Fort Hays State (Kan.), while the Great American Conference (GAC) has one team ranked with No. 7 Arkansas Tech.
The top eight teams in the 41-team region advance to the NCAA Region Tournament on March 15-18. Automatic bids are granted to the winners of the NSIC, MIAA and GAC postseason tournaments, with the remaining five spots are awarded on an at-large basis.
Women's Basketball
The Mustang women's basketball team (4-20, 2-18 NSIC) will close out the regular season this weekend with two home games at the R/A Facility. SMSU will take on Concordia-St. Paul (19-8, 14-6 NSIC) at 6 p.m. today, before facing No. 21 Minnesota State (19-5, 16-4 NSIC) at 5 p.m Saturday. The Mustangs look to snap their five-game losing skid and improve upon its 3-7 record at the R/A Facility this season.
SMSU will be on the road for the first round of the NSIC/Sanford Health Women's Basketball Tournament on Wednesday against an opponent to be determined following this weekend's game.
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The SMSU men's and women's indoor track and field were in action last weekend in Mankato, following a two-week break, competing at the Minnesota State Open. The men's team had a solid day with several high finishers, including Alejandro Sanchez leading the way with a first-place time of 1:55.46 in the 800 meters. Teammate O.J. Ojullu finished in fourth place in the 800 in 1:57.43.
Chris Kveseth also had a strong day, earning second place in the 600 in 1:24:54, while Dallin Finley earned an eighth-place finish in the 200 in 23.13 seconds. SMSU's 1,600 relay team posted a season-best 3:23.30 to finish in fourth place.
On the women's side, Amanda Grengs earned a fourth-place finish in the mile run in 5:29.65 to earn the highest finish among SMSU's runners. Grengs also finished 12th in the 1,000 in 3:14.78. Julia Sauder ran 1:47.23 in the 600 to record a 13th-place finish.
The Mustangs competed Thursday at the Bemidji State Twilight.
The SMSU wheelchair basketball team (13-15) team went 1-3 last weekend, losing its first game versus Sioux Falls, 34-31, before winning the next three games with two wins over the Timberwolves and concluding the weekend with a victory over Sioux Falls, 52-31. Last week's games were the final in the regular season for the Mustangs, who will compete next at the NWBT Championships on March 6-8 in Arlington, Texas.
Women's Tennis
The SMSU women's tennis team (1-4, 0-3 NSIC) is back in action Saturday, when the Mustangs travel to Sioux Falls, S.D., for NSIC matches versus Augustana and Minnesota-Crookston. The matches will be played at the Sioux Empire Fitness Center.
Those matches will be SMSU's last conference matches in February and much of March before the Mustangs embark on a five-day road trip to Mesa, Ariz., during spring break to play seven non-conference matches, beginning March 11.
The SMSU baseball team (1-3) began the season with two non-conference games last weekend losing the first game to Emporia State, 11-7, before beating Missouri Western State 7-6 on Saturday in Emporia, Kan., against two NCAA Central Region opponents. On Sunday, the Mustangs took two losses of 4-2 against Emporia State and Missouri Western State.
The Mustangs return to action March 7 with the first of 12 games at the Tucson Invitational. SMSU begins its spring trip with games versus Malone (Ohio) and Cal State-San Bernardino.
Congratulations to senior outfielder Jon Ellis has been named the NSIC Player of the Week for his performance in four games last weekend. Ellis, a native of Fairmontbatted .583 (7-for-12) with a home run, a double, six RBI and three runs in four games versus two of the top teams in the MIAA. He also walked three times and had 11 total bases for a .917 slugging percentage. Ellis, a three-year letterwinner, has played in 80 career games with 72 starts and has a .333 career batting average with 12 doubles, four home runs and 43 RBI.
The Mustang softball team (0-4) opened the 2014 season in Golden, Colo., versus Colorado School of Mines last Saturday, when they lost 8-6 and 14-5 in five innings. On Sunday, SMSU came up short 9-5 in Game 1 and 12-7 in Game 2.
The Mustangs will be in action March 6 versus Missouri-St. Louis in a doubleheader on their spring trip. On March 7, SMSU battles North Alabama before heading to Kissimmee, Fla., to play 12 games in the Rebel Spring Games.
Good luck to all of our SMSU teams competing this weekend!
Go Mustangs!
Trivia Contest
Congratulation to Max and Mary Lord who provided the correct response to last week's Mustang Hoofprint's Trivia Question: At last year's Gold Rush Raffle, who won the grand prize of $5,000?
Marrisa Brody, Greg Devos, Janelle Fillipi, Pat Hagemeyer and Todd Vogl were all winners in 2013 splitting the $5,000 Grand Prize at the Mustang Gold Rush Raffle.
Trivia Contest
Who is the career leader in field goal percentage for the Mustang men's basketball team?
The first person to email me at email@example.com with the correct answer to this question will receive an SMSU T-shirt.


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"I feel so alone at church. How can I learn to feel included?"
As you prayerfully try to find an answer to your question, remember this teaching from the scriptures: when we join the Church, we "are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints" (Ephesians 2:19). This means we should be friendly to everyone at church. We're all children of God trying to worship Him in love and unity.
Here are a couple ways to feel included:
Get to know people of all ages. In sacrament meeting, for example, you could sit by a single mother with young children. She might appreciate the help. Or you could welcome and get to know members who are new to your ward or branch. When 12-year-olds come into Young Men or Young Women, you could sit by them. It's fun to have friends your own age, but if you reach out to others of different ages and interests, you'll have more chances to develop friendships.
Attend your ward or branch activities. It's hard to go alone, but you will make some friends by attending. Sit with someone who is sitting alone. Say hi and ask about his or her interests. That might be the start of a good friendship.
Several months ago I left my country to go to one where I knew only my sister and her boyfriend. At church I felt like an outsider. Two or three months went by, and I felt the same feeling of loneliness until I decided to smile at others and ask, "How are you?" Each Sunday that went by, they were saying more to me than the simple "I'm fine." It also helped to participate in seminary and Mutual and to work on Personal Progress with other young women. Now I feel comfortable at church, as if I were at home.
Vanessa B., age 17, La Vega, Dominican Republic
Get to Know Others
Years ago I had the same problem. So I decided I would try to be included and show people the real me. As soon as I opened up to others, they opened up to me, and this allowed for strong friendships to form among everyone in my quorum.
MacCoy S., age 17, Utah, USA
Help Others
Remember that all people are children of Heavenly Father. Try to smile and be friendly with everyone. Help others. Reach out to those who also feel lonely. When I serve others, I feel joy and do not feel lonely. It is also absolutely necessary to attend seminary or institute. We feel warmth and goodness there. Don't be afraid of sharing your problems or worries. We are all brothers and sisters, and our problems and trials are similar.
Igor P., age 19, Kyiv, Ukraine
Form Friends in Other Age Groups
I have become better friends with younger age groups and leaders, more so than those around my age. I know that a day will come when you will be friends with those in the Church, and if not, it will be OK because you will still learn the Church material.
Susanna Z., age 18, California, USA
Start the Conversation
A couple of years ago my family and I moved. The first few weeks that I attended church and Mutual, I felt alone. But I prayed every day that I would be able to make new friends and feel a part of my new ward. Little by little I have come to love and appreciate this ward. I had to be the one to initiate friendships. I had to start the conversation. I had to fully participate in classes and listen to what others said. With Heavenly Father's help, I now have close friendships with people I never pictured being friends with.
Leah V., age 16, Colorado, USA
Make Friends with Your Leaders
I felt alone at church for many months. I enjoyed the meetings and activities, but I just did not feel that I meshed with the other girls. I then started talking to my leaders more than I used to. My leaders are fun. Once I started talking to them, I started feeling more a part of the program and that I had friends at Mutual.
Kimberly G., age 14, Arizona, USA
Pray to Have Good Friends
At Church activities I would ask myself, "Why don't I have friends?" I felt sad and alone and went to God in prayer. I asked my Heavenly Father to send me good friends. It hasn't been easy, but over time I've made many great friends. I'm not afraid to talk anymore and to get involved with groups of girls. I realize that Heavenly Father answered my prayers and that I was never alone.
Daiana I., age 16, Corrientes, Argentina
Seek Out Companionship
When I first entered Young Women, I felt alone because I had left my friends in the Valiant class. However, I tried to support the young women, and they also supported me, and I was able to make new friends and interact with them. I no longer felt alone, and that made me happy. Now I am the president of the Beehives, and if I see a new sister who feels uncomfortable being with us, I talk with her, explain what we do in class, and make her feel that she is part of us.
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Big 5 Sporting Goods Store is Closing in Abilene and San Angelo
I couldn't believe it either, my favorite sporting goods store in Abilene is closing it's doors for good on May 14th, 2012. Store manager Ralph Zamarippa says "we've known for some time that Abilene was one of the stores that's been on the list of stores closing in the Big 5 chain, but we couldn't say anything". The San Angelo store will be closing as well according to a visiting manager from the Lubbock store Roy Rocha.
To assist with the clearance sale, managers from Lubbock and Midland are in Abilene to ensure a smooth store closing. Visiting Lubbock manager Roy Rocha said "the Big 5 chain is closing this store because it's one of the poorest performing stores in the company" and that all the merchandise that is not sold from both the Abilene and San Angelo stores will be moved to their new store in Thatcher Arizona. "We are not saying goodbye to Abilene forever, we could possibly come back to this market in the future. I just believe that our location made it difficult for people to get in and out of our parking lot, if this was a two-way street, I may have never had to come to Abilene." said Rocha.
On a sad note, all but two employees will be let go, so if you are looking for some good retail people, here is your chance to pick up some awesome folks that live, worship and have roots here in Abilene. "I have an incredible staff here and I hope that we can all find employment right away" said Ralph Zamarippa.
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I asked Joshua Angoff, 24, and devastatingly handsome, if he's earned the voters' support.
"It's really up to the voters to decide," Angoff said. "But it hasn't been a dirty campaign at all."
He flashed an engaging grin, which managed to come off as shy, self-deprecating and blinding all at once, so I instantly overlooked his lame answer.
"I know, I know," he said. "I should learn how to promote myself better."
He should, but I'll give it a whack in the meantime. Angoff, born and raised in Worcester, is vying for Cosmopolitan's Bachelor of the Year honors, representing Massachusetts in the magazine's popular Hunk-0-Rama. I'm casting my vote for the local boy and you should, too, because he's a modest, nice guy who hasn't let celebrity go to his head, as evidenced by the fact that Cosmo couldn't even reach him to announce the win because he hadn't yet programmed his new cellphone to receive messages.
Instead, the person who nominated him was able to contact Angoff to break the good news. Technically a girlfriend, she's only a friend who happens to be a girl, a status that should give hope to scores of local young women. Because listen up, ladies: Angoff is a catch. A big one.
As noted, he's easy on the eyes. At 5'10", he weighs 190 pounds and sports thick brown hair and large, limpid brown eyes. And get this — just a year out of college, he's already landed a good job that requires he wear a tie and shirt that happens to perfectly complement his strapping shoulders and fit physique. (Forgive my gushing, but we so rarely get the chance to objectify men). He works as a financial analyst at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.
Angoff is one of 51 sexy studs vying for Bachelor of the Year and a $10,000 prize. The contest ends next Thursday, and the winner will be announced that evening during a swank bachelor bash in New York City. That morning, Angoff and his fellow hotties will be featured on the Today show.
He learned he had won in May, but was sworn to secrecy until the online version of Cosmo came out with the bachelor profiles last week. On his, Angoff wrote that he's Cosmo bachelor material because, "I grew up with sisters, so I know how to treat a girl right." His biggest relationship fear is that "she won't get along with my family and friends." His celebrity crush is Jana Kramer, a country music singer. If he's interested in a woman? "I'll start texting her and hope she reciprocates."
When I asked Angoff what happened to flowers, candy or even a phone call, he smiled with the polite but patronizing air one delivers to a hopeless, out-of-touch crone.
"My generation is the texting generation," he explained patiently, gracious enough to refrain from speaking loudly and slowly. "It's the easiest way to communicate these days."
Speaking of communication, his title also comes with many unofficial perks; namely, about 50 emails or tweets from admiring young women around the nation. Does he reply?
"If they take the time to respond, the least I can do is respond," he said. "Some have sent pictures, but nothing too racy."
Speaking of racy, Angoff's spread in Cosmo is modest compared to that of another Bay State hunk, U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, who famously posed mostly nude for Cosmo in 1982. A Republican, Angoff said he plans to vote for Brown and Mitt Romney, but isn't too fond of talking politics.
He captained his football team at Worcester Academy and also played for Union College, where he graduated in 2011 with a degree in economics. He likes to work out and watch football and has excellent taste in television, as two of his favorite shows are "Dexter" and "Breaking Bad." He attended Flagg Street School and lives on North Chiltern Hill Road. He has three brothers and two sisters, all of whom have engaged in good-natured but extensive ribbing at their brother's expense. And they're not the only ones.
"I went out in Boston last weekend," he said. "My friends like to tell people, mostly to embarrass me."
After Cosmo released his profile and wrote that he hails from "Worcestor," Angoff tweeted, "Thanks for naming me Bachelor of the Year for Mass, but my hometown is spelled Worcester." Good for him.
People can vote for the hometown hunk until next Wednesday by linking here.
In the meantime, Angoff continues to work on his promotional skills.
"I'm pretty much a normal guy from Massachusetts," he said. "But I'm a little shy, so all of this takes some getting used to."
Then he smiled. Truth be told, he had me at hello.
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A few days after divesting its stake in the firm that started it all, AIG, and at a profit at that (ignoring that the risk has merely been onboarded by the Fed whose DV01 is now $2+ billion as a result), the US Treasury continues to divest of all its bailout stake, this time proceeding to GM, where the channel stuffing firm just announced it would buyback 200MM shares from the US government at a price of $27.50. More importantly, the "Treasury said it intends to sell its other remaining 300.1 million shares through various means in an orderly fashion within the next 12-15 months, subject to market conditions. Treasury intends to begin its disposition of those 300.1 million common shares as soon as January 2013 pursuant to a pre-arranged written trading plan. The manner, amount, and timing of the sales under the plan are dependent upon a number of factors." Assuming a price in the $27.50 range, this implies a nearly 50% loss on the government's breakeven price of $54. So much for the "profit" spin. One hopes all those Union votes were well worth the now booked $40+ billion cost to all taxpayers.
One wonders why the US government did not open up this particular buyback to a public tender: after all some taxpayers may still care about the financial mismanagement of Uncle Sam. Then again, perhaps not.
General Motors today said it will purchase 200 million shares of GM common stock held by the U.S. Department of the Treasury for $5.5 billion, or $27.50 per share. The share buyback is part of the Treasury's plan, also announced today, to fully exit its entire holdings of GM stock within 12 to 15 months, subject to market conditions.
Treasury has announced its intention to sell its remaining shares of common stock into the market through various means and in an orderly fashion. Treasury intends to begin its disposition of its remaining shares as soon as January 2013, consistent with a pre-arranged written trading plan. In addition, Treasury has agreed to relinquish certain governance rights that were included in the U.S. Treasury Secured Credit Agreement with GM.
"This announcement is an important step in bringing closure to the successful auto industry rescue, it further removes the perception of government ownership of GM among customers, and it demonstrates confidence in GM's progress and our future," said Dan Akerson, chairman and CEO of GM.
Dan Ammann, senior vice president and CFO added, "A fortress balance sheet has been a pillar of GM's financial strategy and has enabled us to undertake today's actions. GM's balance sheet will remain very strong, with estimated liquidity of approximately $38 billion at the end of 2012, following the closing of the share buyback."
The repurchase price of $27.50 per share represents a 7.9 percent premium over the closing price on December 18, 2012. The share buyback is expected to close by the end of the year. This transaction will be accretive to earnings per share, as GM's total shares outstanding on a fully diluted basis will be reduced by approximately 11 percent. In association with this share buyback, GM expects to take a charge of approximately $400 million in the fourth quarter, which will be treated as a special item.
After the repurchase, Treasury will continue to own approximately 300 million shares of GM common stock, or approximately 19 percent of the outstanding shares on a fully diluted basis. Government ownership of GM stock was the result of the auto industry rescue that began under President George W. Bush in 2008 and which was expanded by President Barack Obama in 2009.
The industry in general, and GM in particular, have rebounded sharply since the rescue. Since the rescue, GM has announced investments of more than $7.3 billion in the U.S. and created or retained more than 20,000 jobs.
"We come to work every day grateful that taxpayers from the US and Canada stepped forward to rescue our industry, and determined to show this extraordinary help was worth it," Akerson said.
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Samyang Debuts 10mm f/2.8 Lens for Crop-Sensor DSLRs
It may not be a household name, but Samyang has been cranking out high-quality optics since 1972. This week at Germany's biennial Photokina trade show, the Korean company unveiled a prototype of a 10mm f/2.8 lens for DSLR cameras that uses APS-C and DX "crop" sensors. That's equivalent to a 15mm or 16mm lens on a full-frame DSLR.
The lens's short focus length and rectilinear imaging system provide an extra-wide 110-degree angle of view (107 degrees for the Canon version), making the lens a good choice for architectural and landscape shooting. A rectilinear lens stretches objects near the edges of the frame to prevent straight lines from curving. Details regarding optical construction, available mounts, and pricing were not announced. The Samyang 10mm f/2.8 lens is expected to go on sale in late 2012 or early 2013.
Earlier this week, Samyang announced a 24mm f/3.5 tilt-shift perspective-control lens. The tilt-shift function allows adjustment of the focus plane angle by +/−8.5 degrees and enables parallel shift of the optical axis by +/−12 millimeters. The lens mount and tilt-shift section can be rotated on the optical axis. The lens will be sold with mounts for Canon EF, Nikon F, Pentax K and Sony A. Pricing and availability has not yet been disclosed.


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Edible Garlic chive blossoms on beautiful thick walled red bell pepper!
Image by super gardener Kenny Point in Pennsylvania
Peppers are not just food, they are an adventure that spices your life! They are not just a veggie, but an edible garden beauty in your landscape!
Peppers Come in an Amazing Array!
Mini to Mammoth! Tiny brain wrecking hot chilis, dainty mini to humongous sweet Bells! Early maturing thin walled, later thick walled. Short, long – pointy, round. Ones that hang down, others that point up!
Peppers come in colors you won't believe! How about these super thick walled Jupiter Sweet Burgundy! On the right are 8″ colossal beauties Yellow Monster Peppers! Really sweet, meaty, great fresh, fried or roasted!
Striped, one of the prettiest peppers ever, Fish Pepper, above left, is an African-American heirloom that predates the 1870s. It starts out an unusual cream color striped with green, the fruits ripen to orange with brown stripes, before turning all red. Super for containers! At right is beautiful Numex Twilight. It can produce more than 100 small pretty pods! At 100,000 Scoville Units, it's HOT! Respect.
Disease resistant If your land is moist, hybrids are probably going to do better for you than heirlooms. In coastal Santa Barbara CA we usually have a late spring/summer fog belt/marine layer, locally referred to as the May grays, June glooms and August fogusts. Choose Resistant varieties per the list below and also Potato Yellow Mosaic Virus, Pepper Mottle Virus and Cucumber Mosaic Virus.
Pepper Resistance Codes:(BLS 1-3) Bacterial Leaf Spot (Races 1-3)
(BLS 1-2) Bacterial Leaf Spot (Races 1, 2)
(PC) Phytophthora Root Rot
(PVY) Potato Virus Y
(TEV) Tobacco Etch Virus
(TM 0-2) Tobamovirus (Races 0-2)
(TM 0-3) Tobamovirus (Races 0-3)
(TMV) Tobacco Mosaic Virus Here are recommended varieties by UC Davis in California. TMV is Tobacco Mosaic Virus, PVY is Potato Virus Y. AAS is a super plus! It is an All America Selections winner!
Tam Mild Jalapeño (mild heat with Jalapeño flavor) PVY
Jalapeño M (very hot)
Anaheim TMR 23 (chili pepper, moderately hot) TMV
Anaheim (standard hot chill)
Cayenne Long Red Slim (hot)
Hungarian Yellow Wax (popular for canning, moderately hot)
Serrano Chili Pepper (tabasco type)
Sweet Bell
Bell Boy AAS, TMV
California Wonder TMV
Yolo Wonder TMV
Keystone Resistant Giant TMV
Jupiter TMV
Golden Summer Hybrid (yellow when fully mature) TMV
Golden Bell (yellow when fully mature)
Early Pimento (used fresh or for canning) AAS
Sweet Yellow or Cubanelle Sweet Banana AAS
Gypsy AAS, TMV
Location! If you have a short summer season or are cooler and coastal perhaps, choose earlier smaller fruited varieties than ones that need a long hot summer to fully mature and if necessary change color too.
Cold Tolerant! If you love your peppers and want some early, or have a short growing season, order ones that mature quickly and are cool weather adapted! Plant those first and others more heat tolerant soon after to carry the length of the season. For sweet bell peppers, get seed for Ace, Lady Bell or King of the North! Obriy Ukrainian sweet red pepper is both cold and heat tolerant! For hotties that don't mind cold, order up Early Jalapeño, Hungarian Hot Wax or Anaheim. Rocoto stands some cold but not a hard freeze. Manzano are reported to survive at 20°! The extraordinary feature of these two peppers, Capsicum pubescens (hairy leaves), is they grow into four-meter woody plants relatively quickly, and live up to 15 years! Truly sustainable! If cold weather can happen anytime where you live, grow your peppers in pots; take them inside when it gets cold.
Heat Tolerant! Peppers are a Solanacea like tomatoes, and like tomatoes they produce poorly during high temperatures. Banana, 'Gypsy' and pimento produce very well, despite the heat. Jessie Keith says 'super spicy classic jalapeño 'Tula', wonderfully flavorful pasilla-type pepper 'Holy Molé' (2007 AAS Winner), and classic spicy sweet red bell pepper 'Mexibell' (1988 AAS Winner). Of the sweet bell peppers nothing beats the tough, [thick walled] disease-resistant 'Orange Blaze' (2011 AAS Winner) and its crisp, bright orange peppers.' Heirloom Olympus (65 days green, 85 days red) has large bell peppers on medium-sized plants with good leaf cover. They are high-yielding plants, are heat tolerant and can set fruit under a wide range of conditions. MG Seed Stock. If you planted varieties that are more heat susceptible, put up a shade cloth cover. Depending on the density you select, shade cloth can lower the temperature by approximately 5-15 degrees. If you live in a hot area, bell pepper transplants can be planted in August for fall production when the weather cools down.
Drought tolerant Look for the terms drought tolerant, drought resistant, dry farmed when searching for the best variety for your garden. It's important to know that drought tolerant doesn't necessarily mean heat tolerant and vice versa, so stay alert if you need both. When you are buying seeds, consider the location of the seed company. Perhaps local seed houses will understand your needs best. Check in with local farmers to see which varieties they are growing, remembering that some of their standards are different than a home gardener. For those of you in water critical areas, one way to help the situation is to pick pepper varieties with fewer days to maturity. You get peppers, you can freeze some, your plants are done before the highest heat and driest times. The UC Sonoma County list is short, only two varieties, Jupiter Red Bell and Ordoño.
Sweet Peppers like: Basil, tomato, rhubarb, eggplant, lettuce, asparagus, parsley, silver beet, spinach, carrot, onion, beans, cabbage, peas, marigold and okra.
At left, Cayenne Mix at Eden Brothers Seeds, Scoville Scale: 30,000-50,000 Units
Hot Pepper plants are terrific with eggplant, tomato, okra, Swiss chard, escarole, squash and cucumbers. Marlene Affeld says 'emit a chemical from the plant roots that helps prevent Fusarium, root rot, and a wide range of other plant diseases!'
Peppers are Temp Particular! Peppers grow best in daytime air temperatures 65° to 85°F. Transplant when night time temperatures stay above 50 degrees, 55 is better. Below that plants grow very slowly, have yellowish, puckered leaves, and look sickly, often don't recover. Night temps between 60° and 70° are best. The ideal temperature for peppers is a daytime temperature around 75°F and a nighttime temperature around 62°F.
At soil temperatures above 65 degrees, pepper growth accelerates. If either the soil or air temperature is much below 55 degrees, blossoms of transplants may drop off. The plants may survive and more blossoms will appear. But it is more likely plants will become stunted and never recover. If your plant is puny and showing no growth, best to compost it and replant when it is warmer.
- Nighttime temperatures below 60 F or above 75 F can reduce fruit set. In daytime temperatures greater than 85°F, peppers may drop their blossoms although set fruit will ripen. When daytime temps reach 90 F and above, and stay there, just like with tomatoes, the blossoms seldom set fruit. Not to worry. Just give them some time after temps are lower.
- Plumping up! Gardeners in hot regions will need to be especially patient with big bells and sweet roasting peppers. Both of these tend to wait until the nights are longer and cooler in late summer before fruiting and plumping up. These folks may want to plant banana peppers or sweet non-bells, which will ripen in time to use with those bumper crops of tomatoes and basil. Peppers need time on the plant to absorb nutrients and water and plump up their flesh, so pack your patience.
- Color Changes! Mother Earth News says: After reaching their maximum size, green peppers that are meant to turn red, will develop red pigments in 10 to 28 days, if daytime temperatures are between 65 degrees and 75 degrees. In southern regions where temperatures exceed that range, peppers turn yellowish and may acquire an off-color pallor that is not attractive. Below the optimum temperature range, color development slows dramatically; below 55 degrees, it stops completely. If soil temperatures drop below 68 degrees, pigment production declines and eventually ceases.
Peppers love sun, but a bit of shade is good for the fruit. I planted a Poblano between two big tomato plants. For a while I thought it was a goner, shaded out, then, it just grew and grew! It got almost 4′ tall and produced like crazy and I gave giant peppers away!
Peppers need VERY RICH SOIL, are heavy feeders! Place compost for water holding capacity, worm castings, rotted manure under them when transplanting. Mix in Maxi Crop and Island Seed & Feed Landscape Mix. Sandy soils are preferred for the earliest plantings because they warm more rapidly in the spring. Heavier soils can be quite productive, provided they are well drained and irrigated with care.
Epsom Salts! Rather than in the soil, do foliar Epsom Salts! A cheap home remedy that can keep plants greener and bushier, enhance production of healthier fruit later in the season, and potentially help reduce blossom-end rot. You could apply 1 tablespoon of granules around each transplant, but research has shown a foliar spray of a solution of 1 tablespoon Epsom salts + a 1/2 teaspoon of liquid dish soap (Dawn) per gallon of water at transplanting, first flowering, and fruit set is more effective! As a foliar spray, Epsom salts can be taken up quickly by plants, otherwise, it is sometimes hard for the plant to get it out of the soil because of calcium competition.
Plant your peppers about a foot to 18″ apart. A healthy pepper will get big and top heavy with fruit! It is wise to put small tomato cages over thick wall bell pepper varieties when you plant, to support the weight when they are heavy with fruit.
Though a perennial, they are very susceptible to freeze. With Bell peppers, I have heard a lot of people say their peppers overwintered and produced just fine the following year, but I have not seen that to be true at the community gardens. They are never as robust nor do they produce the big healthy fruits first year plants do. If you are one of the lucky ones, by all means, protect them when there are freezes.
Hot peppers are another story. They seem to do a lot better overwinter, depending on the variety, and I have seen them carry on wonderfully!
Personal Mulch! Solanaceae, that's peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, like mulch from their own leaf litter, so just let the leaves fall and accumulate. In hot summer weather your peppers will appreciate a heavy mulch. Several inches of straw or dried grass clippings will keep the soil cooler and reduce moisture evaporation. Continually moist ground is a necessity for peppers, as they, like tomatoes, suffer from blossom end rot, a physiological disease caused by a calcium deficiency. Most soils contain ample calcium, but the mineral relies on water to transport it to the plant's root system. When the soil lacks moisture, the calcium can't reach the plants and a tell-tale black leathery spot forms on the blossom end of developing fruit. Heavy Nitrogen fertilizer applications can also induce a transient calcium deficiency. I emphasize that you give your peppers plenty of compost for water holding capacity and keep them well mulched!
Peppers, have shallow roots, need even watering. Keep the soil moist, not soggy, to encourage root development and prevent blossom wilting and bitter-tasting peppers. Moisture stress during bloom can cause substantial reduction in fruit set.
Later on, however, as a friend from Farmers Market pointed out: 'Red & yellow peppers are green peppers that have been ripe for a while. So you are asking an already ripe fruit to stay on a vine longer to change color. Too much water, and the pepper will start to turn brown and rot. So we switched to watering a LOT less frequently and the results have been outstanding.'
Sidedressing Peppers need fertilizer in small doses, a rich organic fertilizer when blooms appear. If you scratch in some compost, be careful not to damage their shallow roots. Liquid chicken manure is high in nitrogen and potassium for heavy feeders like peppers. Big, sweet peppers require a continual source of nutrition. The easiest way to fertilize them is to incorporate gradual-release fertilizer in the ground at planting. Fish-meal pellets, alfalfa pellets or cottonseed meal are all good organic choices. You also can foliar-feed plants every week or two with a fish/seaweed soluble fertilizer, spraying the tops and bottoms of leaves, or water the ground with the same mixture.
Replenish mulch as needed throughout summer! You might schedule a mulch check for them and all your plants once a month.
ANNUAL OR PERENNIAL? Technically peppers are perennials, grow year after year – in the right climate. Some chiles overwinter well in Santa Barbara. Bell peppers are another story. Geographically, in Santa Barbara CA they are temp sensitive annuals! I've heard claims about them overwintering in the garden successfully, but I have yet to see it. If you like to do it, better to pot your pepper before any frosts and take it indoors by a sunny window or into your fine greenhouse! You have a couple choices. Prune it ruthlessly, or keep it growing, even producing, with lights and bloom sprays. There are many online threads about overwintering your peppers. Check out tips from several experts to make your efforts count!
Personally, there are so many tasty fresh winter foods that grow well here in our SoCal 'winter,' that I am more than happy to replant peppers in spring!
For Blossom End Rot, see above under Care.
Early Blight and Verticillium Wilt are a problem at all the Santa Barbara Community Gardens. Please see more about them and what to do here.
See more about Pepper pests and diseases at the UC Davis IPM page.
Choose Resistant varieties.
California Wonder Peppers changing color! Eden Brothers Seeds image.
Bell peppers are at their sweetest and are highest in Vitamins A, C and carotenoids when fully mature! When choosing bell peppers for eating, select those that are firm, heavy for their size with shiny, bright and vibrant richly colored skin! The bell pepper's sweetness increases as their color changes from green to their final color if they are a color changing variety.
Their stems should be green and fresh looking. To avoid breaking branches, use a sharp knife to cut, instead of pulling.
It's nice to know that if not optimally ripe, vitamin C and carotenoids in bell peppers will actually increase with refrigerator storage over the next 10 days!
STORAGE can be really fun with peppers! So many options!
For maximum flavor, eat peppers on the same day they are picked! Room temp is best for peppers, leave them on a kitchen counter for a day or two to ripen further. Rinse with cold water just before you use them. Bell peppers are very sensitive to ethylene gas so don't store them with fruits and vegetables that produce ethylene gas. If you put them in the fridge, do it only 1-3 days and use immediately upon taking out of the fridge. Don't remove their cores because they are quite susceptible to moisture loss. Peppers are warm-weather fruits that don't store well in cold temps. If you have too many peppers, consider the following storage options.
Freezing This is the easiest storage method. Peppers freeze well without blanching. Thawed peppers still retain some crispness and can be used in cooked dishes or raw in uncooked preparations. Their flavor is retained, so use frozen peppers primarily for adding 'spice' to soups, stews, and sauces. If you stuff the peppers before freezing, you'll have a ready-made dinner, perfect for the microwave.
To Tray Freeze Sweet Bell Peppers
Wash and core peppers. Chop, dice or slice according to how you plan to use them.
Spread in a single layer on a tray of a cookie sheet. Place tray in the freezer for an hour or longer. Loosen pepper pieces from the tray and pour into zip closure freezer bags. Immediately place sealed bags in the freezer. The pepper pieces will remain separated for ease of measuring. Simply remove as many as you need, reseal the bag and return to the freezer. Or bag them separately in the amounts you plan to use them.
Pickling/Canning Peppers are low-acid fruits so require canning under pressure. It's easier to pickle peppers as you would cucumbers in a crock filled with a simple brine of four cups of water, four cups of vinegar, and 1/2 cup of pickling salt. Add a clove or two of garlic and some fresh herbs for delicious added flavor.
Sweet Banana, Sweet Hungarian, Cubanelle are long, narrow tapering down to one, two or three lobes. They are thin walled, Cubanelle the thinnest. They are usually picked when light yellow or green. Because they have less water content than bells, they are perfect for frying. 'Sweet Banana' was the 1941 All America Selections Winner!
Drying This method works best with thin-walled peppers, particularly the smaller varieties that can be dried whole right on the plant. The key to drying peppers is doing it slowly to retain their color and flavors. Perfect for spicing up bland backpacking meals!
Another form of drying is in brilliant wreaths and Ristras!
You can grind chiles into culinary or medicinal powders! They retain their lovely colors! Paprika is a dried powdered form of bell pepper, and though we are used to seeing red paprika, a paprika can be made from any color of bell pepper and it will end up being that same color. Both the decorative forms and these potent powders make sensational gifts!
To prevent cross-pollination, hot pepper plants should not be planted near sweet or bell pepper plants. TRUE! Plant at least 400 feet between varieties to ensure absolute purity. That's important info for seed savers!
Harvest mature, fully-ripe peppers for seed. Most bell peppers turn red when fully mature. If frost threatens before peppers mature, pull entire plant and hang in cool, dry location until peppers mature.
- There are two methods to process pepper seeds, dry and wet. The dry method is adequate for small amounts. Cut the bottom off the fruit and carefully reach in to strip the seeds surrounding central cone. In many cases, seeds need no further cleaning.
- To process the seed from large amounts of peppers, cut off the tops just under the stem, fill a blender with peppers and water and carefully blend until good seeds are separated and sink to bottom. Pepper debris and immature seeds will float to the top where they can be rinsed away. Spread clean seeds on paper towel and dry in cool location until seed is dry enough to break when folded.
FYI Birds are not sensitive to capsaicin, the heat factor in chilli peppers, and are therefore the main dispersers of the seeds!
Remedies: Hot Oil! Healing Spices. The countless health benefits claimed are exciting and enormous! Cayenne is said to stop heart attacks. Hot oil works wonders on knees.
Nutrition: I'm not sure people really eat peppers for nutrition, LOL! Peppers are in a food category all their own! Choices are made according to the Scoville Scale, how hot or not they are! At the lower end of the scale, nutrition may factor in somewhat, but it is more likely a visual choice, shape and color, whether for salad or type of cooking you will use the pepper for.
From the Netherlands, marvelous Red on Yellow, AKA Flame, Enjoya, and Aloha!
Sweet luscious Bell Peppers have a whopping 169% of the daily value of Vitamin C we need, but who thinks of peppers as a source of Vitamin C?! More we think of low calories, but most of all, that delicious taste! But look, here's more! Absorption of dietary iron is significantly increased when consumed with fruits or vegetables that are high in vitamin C. Eating raw bell peppers with iron-rich foods like meat or spinach, may help increase your body's iron stores, cutting the risk of anemia. Eat peppers!
Absolute Culinary Delight!
Mexican recipes are classic! Salsa! Chile Rellenos! Add to burritos, roll-ups and tacos. Stuff and eat fresh, hot pockets! Roasted, grilled on the barbie! Pickled. Fine chopped in tuna or chicken salad! Go Cajun by sautéing with celery and onion, then mix with tempeh, chicken, seafoods. Stir fry some bits in the wok with cashews, shrimp and Oriental veggies. Puree in summer zucchini soups, hot or cold. Add color and crunch to your dip tray, make a pureed pepper dip! Pizza topping. Fresh slices in a cool Romaine, cucumber, avocado salad – add black beans for protein!
Roasted Poblano Salsa, and by chef Rick Bayliss, Grilled Shrimp Chile Rellenos in Corn Husks
Tasty Buddha Bowl with Red Peppers
To your great health and a happy palate! Stay cool when it's hot!
The Green Bean Connection started as correspondence for the Santa Barbara CA USA, Pilgrim Terrace Community Garden. All three of Santa Barbara city community gardens are very coastal. During late spring/summer we are in a fog belt/marine layer area most years, locally referred to as the May grays, June glooms and August fogusts. Keep that in mind compared to the microclimate niche where your veggie garden is.
Love your Mother! Plant bird & bee food! Think grey water! Grow organic! Bless you for being such a wonderful Earth Steward!


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